The limitations of the Amiga caused an explosion of genius among its music composers, who were forced to think up ever more ingenious ways to use those four channels to the maximum. The result was a counterpointed style that bears some comparison to the Baroque era - a truly sophisticated use of multiple interweaving melodies and rhythms. Golden age!
Chris Hülsbeck as also the Composers of TRISTAR and RED SECTOR were geniuses what that belongs. The Amiga as a System had so many instant recognizeable tracks just because of their quality (thanks PAULA). And most of them still give me teary eyes. What especially Hülsbeck did with his Soundengine is Brainblowing - just silence one Stereo Canal in his original AMIGA compositions (most known: Apydia and Turrican Series) and you get what i mean with it :D
agreed 100% technical limitations lead to a need for creativity to achieve concrete results. the emphasis was on melody and composition, instead of massive production values. this is a massive reason why amiga’s reign remains as the peak era of videogame music. truly the golden age.
Amiga never got the recognition it deserved. If someone marketed the crap out of it half as much as Jobs did with Apple, it would've been the Apple of today.
Commodore really f*cked it up bad. The English branch wanted to take over everything but then Commodore USA sold off everything to a bunch of frauds with a nice smile and it all went down the drain. They managed to fall into a heap of money by dint of their brilliant engineers but apart from that the leadership was incredibly bad.
I like this image, clean, monitor, separate room for yourself... In my days (1991) it was the only color TV that was in our living room where I had few hours of peace with my Amiga when my parents were not home:)
Project X is amazing as usual. Turrican: CONCERTO FOR LASER AND ENEMIES is also great! Anyway, these songs are so cool. It's a shame that a lot of people don't even know they exist.
And of course it starts with Turrican 2 Main Theme :D P.S. 55:13 is NOT T2: Final Fight, that tune played there is called "Mr. Walker and his Factory". "Final Fight" IS the correct title of the Intro tune.
Only tracks ive missing here is the intro of XENON 2 MEGABLAST as also for sure... Shadow of t he Beast Intro :D As a Kid i was so blown away by that - even can remember i recorded this tracks to tape There will be never a Paula again :( I really miss this "non clownworld" times alot
Because this music was an attempt to push the limits to the max, an attempt to write future music. Nowadays lots of synthwave composers are trying to write music of the past. This is the reason why modern synthwave is often garbage.
I am pretty sure that the "Prehistoric Tale" tune played here is actually Jogeir Liljedahl's remake, called "Nearly There..." which was used on the "end part" of the "Full Moon" demo by Virtual Dreams of Fairlight. The original FC13 tune (composed by Jochen Hippel) is a lot more metallic and harsh. The version playing here screams Protracker to me!
Yeah buddy. I still have my Amiga 1200 as well. Installed a 16GB SD card as harddrive that has every game possible installed with no disk needed to start. As well as many of the awesome DEMOs from all the great parties. Andromeda Nexus 7, Spaceballs, The Black Lotus etc :)
Born in 1993, but didn't experience PCs till 1997 i think, so i only used Windows 95 I wish i grew up with Amiga :( Sure we got Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, various Monolith games, Half Life, battlezone 1998, and age of empires and more, but i wish i grew up on the Amiga as well
That's right, I was just thinking how video game music just got very ..... let's say 'ordinary and tame' after the Amiga days. On the Amiga, even the lamest games had exciting music.
@@weena_cn9086 AI is killing artist & coders jobs and those of games creators. If you love games, art , coders and all those involved in creation, please remove it
@@commodoreamigo And what will be achieved with that? Will it stop the AI revolution? The world has always changed and it always will, whether we like it or not. You're welcome to oppose it if you wish. But I'm afraid I don't have the power to stop what is coming upon us through my boycott.
@@weena_cn9086 Already mentioned what it shows. That if you use ai you support the loss of the jobs of creatives who create what you are promoting here. Its entirely up to you to weigh up how you feel about that. And at the end of the day everyone will become affected by it. when you lose work you may find you have a stronger opinion
@@commodoreamigo you cannot stop progress. the Amiga was also a progress back then. the world is changing, learn to live with it. every new progress makes someone unemployed. but the meaning of life is not just about working and making money. we have to adapt. there is no going back to horse and carriage, and we won't all go back to sitting at the Amiga either. as nice as that would be.
That's the other way around, since Crystal Hammer was released in 1988 for Amiga. The author of the song module is Karsten Obarski, also the creator of the first tracker ever, the historical amiga Soundtracker, used to compose it. They sound similar because they used the same instruments like 'monobass', 'pizza' etc. that were available with it and grouped in disks named ST-.
Great mix, but question, how do these sound on YT compare to original hardware? Is the recording accurate? Or is it recorded from an emulator? Just wondering if this is how it sounded on OG hardware... the tracks are kind of... "crunchy" here and I'm curious if it is as intended. thanks!
@@weena_cn9086 really? I figured it was like PC with different sound cards and chips producing different music back then. I have a set of Bose Companion speakers connected to my PC right now. I think it was probably just the first track though cause most others had current l cleaner sound. Did you record this from an emulator though? That would surely change the sound from the original hardware output
@@Shishkebarbarian Unfortunately, I no longer have an Amiga to directly record the sound. How it finally sounds when you play the music depends on so many things, not just your speakers. Your amplifier also plays a role. If you want the original sound from back then, you can only achieve that with an Amiga and original speakers from that time.
I have a Topping D10s DAC and a tube amplifier connected to my PC, along with Teufel floor-standing speakers. Honestly, I don't want to go back to the plastic speakers that were available back then, regardless of their originality. I enjoy how it sounds with today's technology.
@@weena_cn9086 my only point was that getting the tracks from the games through an emulator fundamentally changes the sound, regardless of what you have connected to your PC. I was just trying to figure out the source of the recording
Your version of Lotus III seems broken, near the end where the solo is there should not be a fill, there should just be 8 bars of uninterrupted soloing.
Is there an easy way to make amiga music on a modern PC ? For example if someone had compiled a huge number of amiga sounds in a PC music maker programm that also can extract your music in amiga file (Iff I believe) ?
You want a ‘tracker’ application. The Amiga sound chip was just a digital sample player, so anything that can mix digital samples can compose and play ‘mod’ files.
I can't stand that the drum section is mixed to one side only in the first song. Same reason many songs from the 1960s are impossible to listen to, IMO, when they have an entirement bass line or drums on one side.
The reason is because the Amiga has 4 channels and they're tied to the left and right speakers (two each). So if you have a single drumtrack it will be on one speaker. If you want it to be on both, you either need a lot of work to integrate the drums in both tracks, or use 2 our of 4 tracks for drums.
The limitations of the Amiga caused an explosion of genius among its music composers, who were forced to think up ever more ingenious ways to use those four channels to the maximum. The result was a counterpointed style that bears some comparison to the Baroque era - a truly sophisticated use of multiple interweaving melodies and rhythms. Golden age!
Chris Hülsbeck as also the Composers of TRISTAR and RED SECTOR were geniuses what that belongs.
The Amiga as a System had so many instant recognizeable tracks just because of their quality (thanks PAULA). And most of them still give me teary eyes.
What especially Hülsbeck did with his Soundengine is Brainblowing - just silence one Stereo Canal in his original AMIGA compositions (most known: Apydia and Turrican Series) and you get what i mean with it :D
Too many people won't understand this unfortunately
@@FreaKzero Bjorn Lynne too (Dr Awesome).
Good analogy. Having some limitations on your art form can be a good thing...
agreed 100%
technical limitations lead to a need for creativity to achieve concrete results. the emphasis was on melody and composition, instead of massive production values.
this is a massive reason why amiga’s reign remains as the peak era of videogame music.
truly the golden age.
a gentler happier time
The best times. I still have my Amiga 1200 I play regularly ;)
8Gb SD harddrive with every game, DEMOs installed on it ;)
Amiga never got the recognition it deserved. If someone marketed the crap out of it half as much as Jobs did with Apple, it would've been the Apple of today.
Commodore really f*cked it up bad. The English branch wanted to take over everything but then Commodore USA sold off everything to a bunch of frauds with a nice smile and it all went down the drain. They managed to fall into a heap of money by dint of their brilliant engineers but apart from that the leadership was incredibly bad.
The Fastest Apple at the time was an Amiga!!
I like this image, clean, monitor, separate room for yourself... In my days (1991) it was the only color TV that was in our living room where I had few hours of peace with my Amiga when my parents were not home:)
Commodore 1084 monitor bezel image for WinUAE by Ralf Ostertag. Channel Kuokka77 has featured this background in tunes for well over 10 years.
I would give anything to go back to those days.
Never put discs on top of the monitor! :D AMIGA Foreva!
Turrican II ❤
Maaaaan, all these years later and Turrican still slaps
Project X is amazing as usual. Turrican: CONCERTO FOR LASER AND ENEMIES is also great! Anyway, these songs are so cool. It's a shame that a lot of people don't even know they exist.
I didn't know until just recently! This stuff is great!
Yes, i am proud that i had my Amiga 500 too... :) Golden era
Yeah , Golden Amiga's music and games. THX
And of course it starts with Turrican 2 Main Theme :D
P.S. 55:13 is NOT T2: Final Fight, that tune played there is called "Mr. Walker and his Factory".
"Final Fight" IS the correct title of the Intro tune.
The best sounds of Amiga.... I past have 500 model. A big TNX to You!!!
Your welcome
Only tracks ive missing here is the intro of XENON 2 MEGABLAST as also for sure... Shadow of t he Beast Intro :D
As a Kid i was so blown away by that - even can remember i recorded this tracks to tape
There will be never a Paula again :( I really miss this "non clownworld" times alot
I honestly don't think 'wormsign', with actual instruments, would be out of place in the new movies. Amazing music then and now.
the fact the playlist starts with a turrican theme makes me extra happy
such a classic
Awesooome!!!! I feel Dejavu and goosebumps, the ol time Amiga sounds .. 😍😍😍
Starting off with Turrican 2?....ahhhh shiiiiieeeeet...*insert vibing cat gif*
And this sounds way better than all the synthwave shit we got now :(
Because this music was an attempt to push the limits to the max, an attempt to write future music. Nowadays lots of synthwave composers are trying to write music of the past. This is the reason why modern synthwave is often garbage.
This is a really good mix!
Thank You 😀
I am pretty sure that the "Prehistoric Tale" tune played here is actually Jogeir Liljedahl's remake, called "Nearly There..." which was used on the "end part" of the "Full Moon" demo by Virtual Dreams of Fairlight.
The original FC13 tune (composed by Jochen Hippel) is a lot more metallic and harsh. The version playing here screams Protracker to me!
Ах Amiga до чего ж ты была хороша! The Best!!!
You have some absolutely stonking tunes here. Thanks for taking the time to make this little compilation. I only wish it was longer. ;)
Thank You
Turrican FTW!
Love my AMIGA 1200 😍
Yeah buddy. I still have my Amiga 1200 as well. Installed a 16GB SD card as harddrive that has every game possible installed with no disk needed to start. As well as many of the awesome DEMOs from all the great parties. Andromeda Nexus 7, Spaceballs, The Black Lotus etc :)
Born in 1993, but didn't experience PCs till 1997 i think, so i only used Windows 95
I wish i grew up with Amiga :( Sure we got Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, various Monolith games, Half Life, battlezone 1998, and age of empires and more, but i wish i grew up on the Amiga as well
That's right, I was just thinking how video game music just got very ..... let's say 'ordinary and tame' after the Amiga days. On the Amiga, even the lamest games had exciting music.
FLASHBACK!!!
TURRICAN...I Love and the PSICNOSIS production
Gerade den kleinen süßen Kanal entdeckt, da werden Erinnerungen wach 😢😮🤤🤗 Wings of Death hab ich geliebt 🤩
Dankeschön ☺
Very nice!
Thank you
Thank god i was born in the 80s. There is no better time...look around these days.
I love that Mr Nutz music.
The A prehistoric tale music is more or less the Parallax music on the c64 :)
it's utopia for me on this list besides the obvious turrican tunes
Great song
amiga ever
Would go okay on my cousin’s Amiga in surrey good ole days.
great mix! What's that wallpaper you have on the screen? I also love it!
This is a AI generated image
@@weena_cn9086 AI is killing artist & coders jobs and those of games creators. If you love games, art , coders and all those involved in creation, please remove it
@@commodoreamigo And what will be achieved with that? Will it stop the AI revolution? The world has always changed and it always will, whether we like it or not. You're welcome to oppose it if you wish. But I'm afraid I don't have the power to stop what is coming upon us through my boycott.
@@weena_cn9086 Already mentioned what it shows. That if you use ai you support the loss of the jobs of creatives who create what you are promoting here. Its entirely up to you to weigh up how you feel about that. And at the end of the day everyone will become affected by it. when you lose work you may find you have a stronger opinion
@@commodoreamigo you cannot stop progress. the Amiga was also a progress back then. the world is changing, learn to live with it. every new progress makes someone unemployed. but the meaning of life is not just about working and making money. we have to adapt. there is no going back to horse and carriage, and we won't all go back to sitting at the Amiga either. as nice as that would be.
Thank you for the video...
I can see a lot of effort went into the stereo - sounds almost binaural on some tracks
53:31 is from Turrican 2. I think the song is called "Mr Walkers Factory"
Your right, thank you
brilliant Mix, is that an Amiga painting looks a bit rich.
No, it is an image i made to look like an old amiga grafic
@@weena_cn9086 well done it's very nice.
Dune: Wormsign starts at 22:35, not 24:20. It ends at 26:10.
ok thx, fixed
Great!
schönes bild
Danke schön :)
10/10!!😊
Thank You 🙂
Whoa, Crystal Hammer sounds a lot like "Phil's Mac World" from Monkey Shines.
That's the other way around, since Crystal Hammer was released in 1988 for Amiga. The author of the song module is Karsten Obarski, also the creator of the first tracker ever, the historical amiga Soundtracker, used to compose it.
They sound similar because they used the same instruments like 'monobass', 'pizza' etc. that were available with it and grouped in disks named ST-.
@@lgk72 Neat.
Utopia starts at 32:04 not 33:45
ok thanks
i think i should have a look at my old a2000 and see how the battery is doing.
Great mix, but question, how do these sound on YT compare to original hardware? Is the recording accurate? Or is it recorded from an emulator? Just wondering if this is how it sounded on OG hardware... the tracks are kind of... "crunchy" here and I'm curious if it is as intended. thanks!
I think the sound depends on the kind of speaker you used back then and what kind of speakers you use today.
@@weena_cn9086 really? I figured it was like PC with different sound cards and chips producing different music back then. I have a set of Bose Companion speakers connected to my PC right now. I think it was probably just the first track though cause most others had current l cleaner sound. Did you record this from an emulator though? That would surely change the sound from the original hardware output
@@Shishkebarbarian Unfortunately, I no longer have an Amiga to directly record the sound. How it finally sounds when you play the music depends on so many things, not just your speakers. Your amplifier also plays a role. If you want the original sound from back then, you can only achieve that with an Amiga and original speakers from that time.
I have a Topping D10s DAC and a tube amplifier connected to my PC, along with Teufel floor-standing speakers. Honestly, I don't want to go back to the plastic speakers that were available back then, regardless of their originality. I enjoy how it sounds with today's technology.
@@weena_cn9086 my only point was that getting the tracks from the games through an emulator fundamentally changes the sound, regardless of what you have connected to your PC. I was just trying to figure out the source of the recording
Your version of Lotus III seems broken, near the end where the solo is there should not be a fill, there should just be 8 bars of uninterrupted soloing.
Where can we get a high res download of the picture? I want it for my desktop!
here you go easyupload.io/xwauan download valid for 30 days
@@weena_cn9086 What a champion!
Hi Weena, can you repost this awesome picture please ? "Amiga Forever" 😇@@weena_cn9086
I was always told not to put my 3.5 discs on top of the monitor..
Is there an easy way to make amiga music on a modern PC ?
For example if someone had compiled a huge number of amiga sounds in a PC music maker programm that also can extract your music in amiga file (Iff I believe) ?
You want a ‘tracker’ application. The Amiga sound chip was just a digital sample player, so anything that can mix digital samples can compose and play ‘mod’ files.
What is the song that starts at 29:13 ?
Ah ok - it's the Super Cars II intro music (the timestamp in the description is wrong)
@@r_a_p_h_a_e_l Yes Super Cars II, sorry thimestamps are a little messed up. Dont know what happend there.
link download?
I can't stand that the drum section is mixed to one side only in the first song. Same reason many songs from the 1960s are impossible to listen to, IMO, when they have an entirement bass line or drums on one side.
Agreed and the tragedy of limited polyphony I suppose.
The reason is because the Amiga has 4 channels and they're tied to the left and right speakers (two each). So if you have a single drumtrack it will be on one speaker. If you want it to be on both, you either need a lot of work to integrate the drums in both tracks, or use 2 our of 4 tracks for drums.
Disquettes on the CRT?
Its not real...Chill lol
@@gizagoogames2595 :-)
nice, where is the background to be found?
I made the background my self. It´s not from a game.
@@weena_cn9086 ok thx
@@weena_cn9086 It's awesome!
Disketten nicht auf den Monitor legen (wegen dem Magnetfeld)
Guter Tipp 😄
Whats the Song at 07:45 ?
That is Flashback by Delphine Software
@@weena_cn9086 Really? I have finished the Game many times. I have never heard that before.
@@MorganJustGames Hmm.. it should be Flashback OST CD - Track 01 🙄
From Supercars II and onwards the Chapters are quite wrong unfortunately.
What's the game shown on the monitor?
Thats not a Game, it is an AI generated image 😬
@@weena_cn9086 Oh no, I was so ready to play it, it looks like a fantastic adventure game 😔
@@AgentSmith911 Sorry 😌
@@weena_cn9086 I'll live. It's a nice video. But your timestamps in the video are way off btw.
Looks a bit like The Settlers though. 😁
Amiga was great. Except when it came to arcade ports then it really got shafted.
The Flashback track doesn't belong in this list. 7:43
ok
It was the CD32 version, so it's kind of ok. Although I prefer the original A500 version. 😊
Wie kommt man an das Hintergrundbild?